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Jelena Breedlove
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Bjac Aquisto
NIGHT WATCH
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• Name of the movie – Night Watch
• Director – Timur Bekmambetov
• Country – Russia
• 2004
• Based on the book by Sergey Lukyaneko
NIGHT WATCH НОЧНОЙ ДОЗОР
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• Postmodern form
• Pastiche
• Incorporating the elements of previous genres, creating a new narrative voice
• Metafiction
• Writing about writing
• Jumps in time
• Maintaining emotional distance as a narrator
• Magical realism
• Introducing fantastic into normal life
• Magical characters
• Parallel worlds
• Intertextuality
• Acknowledgment of previous literary work
• Irony, Referential
• Deferring in expectation
POSTMODERNISM
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• Subtitles
• Play scene (11:00)
• Conveys other meaning
• Lack of opening credits
• Studio required minimal credits
• Use of specific methods and camera shots types of special effects
Play (38:22, 23:20)
POSTMODERN FORM
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• Different genre
• Thriller
• Abortion as a murder
• Murder of a vampire
• Horror
• Vampires
• Love Story
• Anton’s wife leaves him
• He loves her
• He finds their son at the end
• Legend
• Old Byzantine legend – virgin curse
• Legend of the battle
• Russian Hollywood style
• First Russian movie that was done in Hollywood style
• First large budget film after the colapse of USSR (4.26 mil)
• No previous fantasy genre
• Needed to stay close to reality to
• Make believable to audience
PASTICHE (PREVIOUS GENRES, MIXING)
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• Time
• First scene starts few thousand years ago
• 12 years ago
• Present
• Continuance of last battle
• Play first (0:43) and last battle(1:41:26)
• English speaking narrator
• Maintaining emotional distance as narrator
METAFICTION(JUMPS IN TIME, DISTANT NARRATOR)
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• Various Characters
• Vampires
• Dark ones
• Others
• Light ones
• Shape shifters
• Woman lion
• Gods
• Gasser and Zavalon
• Others under the spell
• Girl owl
• Virgin
• Witch
• Old woman
• Curse
• Damned virgin
• Everything dies
• Chaos
• Good and Evil imbalance
• Continuance of the battle
• Gloom
• Vampires can hide
• Others can go there
• Play the scene with mirror
• Play scene ( 30:22)
MAGICAL REALISM(FANTASY IN REAL LIFE)
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• Baba Yaga
• Russian fairy tales
• Eats children
• Performs black magic magic to kill an unborn child
INTERTEXTUALITY(REFERRING TO PREVIOUS LITERARY WORK)
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• Leading a horse with a carrot and a stick
INTERTEXTUALITY
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• Refers to USSR and time after the fall
• Pop star – vampire
• 1990s criminal – vampire
• Light Others – workers
• Electricity/ socialist realism
IRONY, REFERENTIAL
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INTERTEXTUALITY
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• Light and Dark twist
• In order to kill a Vampire, Other has to drink blood
• Nightwatch and Daywatch
• Play the last scene (1:43:46)
• Friend on opposite sides
• Vampire gives …. His mother clothes
• Vampire helps him get blood
DEFERRING IN EXPECTATION